Evener.



No. 768,623. PAT'ENTEiJ AUG. 30, .1904.

N; P. PETERSON.

EVENBR.

APPLIUA-TIOH FILED JAIL 26. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

' Patented August so, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

NELS P; PETERSON, or 'Jnw'ELL, IOWA.

EVENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,623, dated August30, 1904 Application filed January 25,1904 Serial No; 190,441. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, New P. PETERSON, a citi' zen of the United States'ofAmerica, and a resident of Jewell, Hamilton county, Iowa, have inventeda new and useful Evener, of which the following is a specification. I p

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for hitchingtwo-draft-animals abreast to a vehicle or implement to be drawn thereby.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof elements hereinafter set forth,pointed out in my claims, andillustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a planof the complete-device.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of thedevice. Fig.

3 is a perspective of the device mounted as re- 11, and a spacing-block12, also centrally apertured, is mounted between said bars. A"

hammer-strap 13 is mounted on a tongue 14 and 1s apertured in itsforward end portion 1n allnement with an aperture in the tongue. A

wrench-pin 15 is mounted through the aper tures in the hammer-strap 13,spacing-block 12, evener-bars 10 11, and tongue 14; and

pivotally connects the evener bars to the" tongue. Swingletrees 16l7,preferably formed of bar metal, are mounted between the adjacent endportions of the evener-bars 1O 11 and 'are pivoted thereto by means ofpins'18 19, said pins held removably and. replaceably by nuts 18 19' andkeys 20. The swingletrees 16 17 preferably are of greater width in theircentral portions and taper toward their opposite ends and terminate indiverging hooks 21 22, integral with the bodies thereof By means of thediverging hooks 21 22 cockeyes, toggles, or traces may be attached tothe sWingletrees.

fro between them on the inner ends of the swingletrees.

Shackles or y'okes 23 24 are mounted on the evener-bars 1O 11 andembrace the inner end portions of the swingletrees 16 17. The shackleslimit movement of oscillation of the swingletrees inone direction to apredetermined degree, thuspreventing the outer end portions of theswingletrees contacting with the Wheels of a vehicle or implement drawnthereby.

I claim as my invention 1. In a device of the class described, aswingletree formed of a single bar of metal and provided with integralhooks on its ends, which hooks are formed with reduced stem portions anddiverging arms 21, 22 on the extremities of said stem portions, saidarms being in the same plane as the body portion of the swingletree andextending laterally equal distances from the stem portions.

2. An evener,comprising bars arranged parallel with eachother'and spacedapart, a spacing-block between said bars, a bolt extending through thecenters of said barsand spacingblock whereby the evener may be pivotedto a tongue, end portions of both bars offset toward eachother,swingletrees formed of single flat metal bars and mounted betweenand pivoted at their centers to the offset end portions of said bars,hooks integrally formed in pairs on and diverging in said pairs from endportions of said swingletrees, and loopshaving their ends mountedthrough the bars and riveted and their body portions extending acrossthe space between said bars in front of the in- .ner end portions of theswingletrees.

Signed by me at Jewelhlowa, this 5th day.

of October, 1903.

NELS PpPETERSON.

Witnesses: N. P. CLEM nNsnN,

M. H. BRooK.

